A national memorial service was held in the capital city on Thursday to mourn late leader Kim Jong Il.

A total of 54 people will be punished for the fatal high-speed train crash in July, the State Council announced at an executive meeting Wednesday.

Global coffee prices may surge early next year as tighter bank lending in top robusta producer Vietnam chokes off cash to exporters, cutting supply and pushing up premiums even as the harvest rolls in.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 1,600 female partners of drug users in Ha Noi have been protected from HIV infection thanks to a three-year project that ends this month.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ministry of Transport inspectors and the Ministry of Public Security began monitoring train ticket sales and public order at railway stations in HCM City on Monday.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to provide 76 tonnes of Chlorine, 180,000 hand-foot-mouth vaccines and 20,000 litres of Benkocid antiseptic from the national reserves

Most Venerable Thich Tri Tinh, First Deputy Patriarch and Chairman of the Viet Nam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) Executive Council and Most Venerable Thich Minh Chau, Deputy Patriarch of VBS, were awarded Ho Chi Minh Orders

Whether the enterprises’ networks are simple or complicated would depend on their scale and types. Nowadays, service providers offer a lot of solutions for enterprises’ choices.

VietNamNet Bridge – Do Tuan Anh from Domesco Pharmacy Dong Thap won the fourth stage of the ADC-Vinh Long Television international men's cycling tournament yesterday. Loh Sea Keong from Laos took the overall lead.

The year 2011 witnesses the dark days in the history of the real estate market. Real estate developers cannot borrow capital to develop projects, while the real estate prices have been decreasing dramatically.

VietNamNet Bridge – Five-year (2011-15) national reproductive healthcare action plan will focus on safe motherhood and newborns.

Local residents in the central region take pride of the vast forests, covering an area of 13 million hectares. However, the forests there have been devastated every day, despite the existence of forest rangers.

Though investors can see clearly that the demand for children’s leisure centers is very high, and that the market has great potentials to develop, they still keep hesitant to inject money in the field.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam finished seventh out of 10, with nine points at the third Women's World Chess Team Championship in Turkey.

VietNamNet Bridge – South Korean music trio F-sharp will join Vietnamese singers in a Friendship Melody music show tonight, Dec 29, at the Tuoi Tre (Youth) Theatre, 11 Ngo Thi Nham Street in Ha Noi.

A latest report from the Conference Board on Tuesday showed confidence among U.S. consumers rose to the highest level in eight months in December, suggesting American consumers were more upbeat about the economic outlook

VietNamNet Bridge – Incorrect labels were a feature of two thirds of inspected electrical products, according to Ministry of Science and Technology's chief inspector Tran Minh Dung.

Vietnam, Laos and Thailand have agreed to boost geo-economic axis cooperation in their triangle development area.

China started to run its own satellite positioning system, Beidou, on Tuesday as the country climbed the global tech ladder and challenged the monopoly of the West.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Sai Gon River and other rivers in HCM City have become more polluted because of increasing levels of waste-water from household and industrial waste.

VietNamNet Bridge – Senior songwriter Vo Thien Thanh is carrying out a so-called “Valentine song of the century” project with 24 Vietnamese pop stars. The song will come out on the night of the Valentine Day 2012.

A second city in East China's Fujian province will require those buying emergency contraceptive pills to show identification, Xiamen Daily reported on Wednesday.

A lot of investors who undertake transport projects under the mode of BOT are facing the risk of incurring loss because the lending interest rates are very high, while it is very difficult to access loan sources.

VietNamNet Bridge – In temperature of 10 degree Celsius, children in the needy commune of Lung Chinh in Meo Vac district, the northern mountain province of Ha Giang, wear very thin clothes, plastic sandals. Their faces and hands are chapped.

Phan Thi Ha Thanh's bronze medal in the vault at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Competition and her qualification for the London Olympics has been selected as "a remarkable event of the year"